most insignificant

John Adams — the first to hold the position, under President Washington — once called the vice presidency the “most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”

For Russian historians — strange and terrible to say — Napoleon, that most insignificant instrument of history, who never and nowhere, even in exile, displayed any human dignity — Napoleon is the object of admiration and enthusiasm; he is grand.

That drive was significant in the most insignificant way.

He said that tensions between Belgrade and Pristina are so high that even “the most insignificant event can create a situation.”

He said that tensions between Belgrade and Pristina are so high that even “the most insignificant event can create a situation.”